I loved playing red dead redemption 2 but the games exploration feels limited without parkour and exploring the world feels not that great, but exploring assassin creed odyssey's huge ancient greece with unlimited freedom with ships and climbing feels goddamn great, and i might even say Assassin creed odyssey's openworld is waybetter than red dead redemption 2 openworld,

I think they’re unique in their own ways. RDR2 does open world very well for what the game itself is and AC: Odyssey does it very well for what it is too. Can’t really say one is better than the other.

I disagree and that is mainly because of all the ? on the map. You always know exactly where the next point of interest is, which imo kinda ruins it. In RDR2 the map is just empty and you go out and explore it completely by yourself without any handholding, which makes finding a point of interest way more satisfying and cool imo.

Don't you dare speak publicly about disliking rdr2 though, I once did and it was like I just strangled then shat on someone's Gran. But it's for forming an argument with facts, not opinions. Like in rdr2 after the Micha mission my sister had a $50 bounty to pay off and I had a $300. We just did the same.mission didn't we?

And don't get me started on telepathic lawmen communication with each other. At least AC odyssey its line of sight and shouting range. RDR2 is all about magical lawmen spawning just behind you to shoot you

Also Arthur leaving his weapons on his horse and always defaulting back to pistol does my head in. I want to play a game where I control the character, not the character controls me.

Why are you hating, cant you just enjoy a game and keep your opinion to yourself? I am simultaneously playing both games and I am having the time of my life with both, one is a more over the top open world rpg, and another is a beautiful western with more realistic elements and cinematic story

Totally agree. Somehow the completely unrealistic 'flicking around the place" controls of odyssey feel.more realistic than the clunky controls of rdr2,

But as a lot of people have said, the are 5wo games aiming to so different things, and I will say I like my games to be very game'y. I like map markers and icons above people's heads. For me rdr2 strayed a little bit too far away from it being a game. As a hunting simulator or a horse back exploration walking SIM its great.

Also could it be the year that ubisoft releases the least buggy AAA game?

Though both games have Uber. Token mechanics. In odyssey the way guards magically migrate to your location when searching, and can stand staring at a brick wall for 5 minutes, only to turn around the second you sneak up behind the.

And RDR2's lawman and bounty hunter mechanic is plain unfair, having them spawn lawmen within radar range to try and capture you.

I was talking about this the other day. In Odyssey after beating the game I wanted to explore everything and do all achievements. In RD2 I just don't care or want to waste the time. The fast traveling and slow movement just kill me wanting to collect everything around the world. The story missions are great killing lots of people every missions but after end game there's no good fights. What am I suppose to do? Go get a huge bounty and have everyone after me? The whole story line was geared to not committing any more crimes and now that's what I should do? I put in odyssey a couple days ago after rd2 and first thing i noticed was how smooth the movement was. Can't wait for weekly's and dlc.

I’m a huge AC fan and RDR2 started so slow for me. It took me maybe 10-15 hours to truly understand the game and the world it put in front of me.

I have to say, exploration in RDR2 is quite amazing.

I don’t see the point in comparing the two games. They are so different. Both are incredibly detailed. RDR2 world is not boring in any way. It’s just most slow/grounded. There’s plenty of interesting shit to find and do though.